sending a document via e-mail with thunderbird

cyberwuffy

Hello. I'm quite new to linux and thunderbird. I'm having trouble when I want to send a document via e-mail with thunderbird. I'll already have thunderbird open and I'll choose "Send Document as e-mail" from open office. I have the path to thunderbird in the mail client chooser, but when the command runs, thunderbird asks me for another profile because my previous copy of thunderbird is running. This is a pain and I plan to always keep thunderbird open. How do I get it to compose a message in the instance of thunderbird that is already running?

Best Wishes,
Cyberwuffy

blabla · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:33 am Post subject:

Hi,

I use Linux, too (Suse 9.1 Pro) and have never even thought of doing anything like that. So I opened a doc, changed my external mail programme to Mozilla and got the same prob as you (for the same reasons).

Since I don't know how to make OOo realize that the mail programme is up and running already I gonna stick with working on the document, saving it in its proper place and then mailing it as an attachement.

If you get any further, though, please let me know.

Good luck

blabla

sohmc · Newbie Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

OpenOffice doesn't what it's supposed to.

When you enter the program path for your e-mail, you enter something like: "/path/to/thunderbird"

What openoffice does is append "-compose attachment=file:///some_attachment.xls" at the end. So when you're running Thunderbird, it see's the -compose command and attempts to open a mail window under the default mail user. OOo will append this command on any program you put in the path (at least with my version anyway). Hopefully there will be a way for end-users to change and modify for thier own programs.

Unfortunately, thunderbird cannot attach files (That I know of) with the thunderbird remote (e.g. thunderbird -remote mailto("mail@mail.com")). So there are bugs on both sides of the coin.
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udein · Newbie Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

Hallo,

I'm not sure that I understand the previous posts correctly.
In my case (Debian-Linux, Thunderbird 1.06, OO 1.9.104) everything works fine. I am in OO Writer creating a text, then choose File/Send/Document as E-Mail. Thunderbird opens up with the document's name in the attachments field. It doesn't matter whether TB is up and running or not, neither is there any need to save the document first.

So what did I miss?

joerg04 · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

dainapoo · Newbie Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

Hi,

It appears I have a slightly different question. I also am new to Linux and Open Office/Thunderbird. What I want to do is to turn my doc into an email - not an attachment. In my business it was a very easy way create a form letter in Word/Outlook that I saved and then sent out over and over again with only an email address change. I was able to to make a doc an attachment, but that is not what I'm after. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Daina